Media & Publishing Website Structure Guide

Quick answer

A well-structured site for media and publishing companies organizes around editorial standards pages, topic hub pages, author credential pages, archive/topic index pages — with clear navigation to each, not buried behind a generic "Services" menu.

What the top-level navigation should include

Each of these deserves its own clear place in navigation, not a sub-menu three clicks deep:

  • editorial standards pages
  • topic hub pages
  • author credential pages
  • archive/topic index pages

Where most sites get the hierarchy wrong

No visible editorial standards or author credentials, in a category where trust and credibility are the entire product.

URL structure

Keep URLs short, descriptive, and matched to the page's actual content — a URL that matches the page's real topic (rather than an internal project code or generic ID) helps both visitors and search engines understand the page before they even click.

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